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2019
Abstract This chapter focuses on food assistance as a specific type of noncash benefit for poor and low-income persons. In 2006, the United States substituted the term “food insecurity” for hunger, but by any measure the United States has too many people—even those working full-time—without enough money to purchase groceries. The chapter
Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo
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Abstract This chapter focuses on food assistance as a specific type of noncash benefit for poor and low-income persons. In 2006, the United States substituted the term “food insecurity” for hunger, but by any measure the United States has too many people—even those working full-time—without enough money to purchase groceries. The chapter
Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo
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ISSUES IN FOOD ASSISTANCE - PRIVATE PROVISION OF FOOD AID: THE EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE SYSTEM
2002Although Federal programs provide most food assistance in the U.S., many households rely on private, nonprofit, charitable organizations that provide emergency food in their communities. This issue brief reports findings from the first comprehensive government study of these organizations.
Tiehen, Laura, Tiehen, Laura
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Taxonomy of Seniors’ Needs for Food and Food Assistance in the United States
Qualitative Health Research, 2020Food insecurity results in poor health among seniors. Food and nutrition assistance targeted to seniors experiencing or at risk of food insecurity prevents poor health outcomes and enables seniors to age in place. Currently, the primary modes of service delivery are targeted to seniors who are older and frailer than average, rendering these modes less
Andrea M. Warren +3 more
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In‐Kind Food Assistance and Consumer Food Choice
Journal of Consumer Affairs, 1987In‐kind food assistance was the mainstay of federal food programs until the food stamp program expanded. Analysis of aggregate data suggests that large donations of cheese and butter since 1982, through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, replaced recipients’ normal purchases of the donated products, reduced consumption of close ...
JAMES A. ZELLNER, LARRY G. TRAUB
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food and nutrition assistance landscape
2023The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 15 domestic food and nutrition assistance programs that affect the lives of millions of people and account for roughly two-thirds of USDA's annual budget. In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, USDA launched additional temporary programs and implemented numerous policy changes that ...
Saied Toossi +1 more
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2017
This chapter describes the food security features in the humanitarian context focusing on the new way of working requested by the complexity of the current emergency situations and consisting in the passage from food aid to food assistance. To this purpose, the chapter introduces the concept of food aid and its distinguishing features followed by the ...
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This chapter describes the food security features in the humanitarian context focusing on the new way of working requested by the complexity of the current emergency situations and consisting in the passage from food aid to food assistance. To this purpose, the chapter introduces the concept of food aid and its distinguishing features followed by the ...
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Snakes assisted food image segmentation
2012 IEEE 14th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2012In this paper we describe an image segmentation method for segmenting food items in images used for dietary assessment. Dietary assessment methods used to determine the foods and beverages consumed at a meal are essential for understanding the link between diet and health. Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively to locate object boundaries and
Y. He +3 more
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High Food Prices and International Food Assistance
2012High food prices in 2008 and 2010 generated concern about food security in developing countries. The number of food insecure people was estimated to have jumped significantly and food assistance donors were faced with unexpectedly high procurement bills.
Cardwell, Ryan T., Cardwell, Ryan T.
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Transforming Food Aid to Food Assistance
2011The WFP’s Strategic Plan (2008—extended to 2013): marks a historical shift from WFP as a food aid agency to WFP as a food assistance agency, with a more nuanced and robust set of tools to respond to critical hunger needs. Its overarching goal is to reduce dependency and to support governmental efforts to ensure long term solutions to the hunger ...
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Food Assistance Programs and Food Security
2014Food insecurity is a leading public-health challenge in the United States today. This is primarily due to the magnitude of the problem—about 50 million persons are food insecure—and the serious negative health and other outcomes associated with being food insecure.
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